Quotes About Illusion

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

Cinema felt like a fantasy. It was like watching dreams unfold on the screen before me.

Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.

I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...

Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.

Life as we know it is merely a dream within dreams.

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality,

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and our real life is passing by, moment by moment.Life is only lived in moments: anything else is a fantasy, a lie, an illusion.

The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material.

The great lie is like a sword that has been thrust into the heart of humankind.

You Mirror maybe a Mirage, so watch-out!

I have met the devil - he is not!

What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.

Just when you think you know.....you don't know.

Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.